Car seats!

I know it’s still early but we have started looking at car seats! Now we think we have narrowed it down to the maxi cosi pebble plus or the maxi cosi axissfix plus, both are I size and used from birth the the axissfix plus is used till 4 years where the pebble plus is only till around a year old.
The pebble can obviously be removed from the car however I don’t really use my car much and wouldn’t want to keep baby in a car seat as it’s not good for them, the axissfix stays in the car but does turn to get baby out.
Have you all decided and which would you go for??

Comments (9)

I would personally go for the pebble. As if you ever needed a lift as an emergency and didn’t have the car least you have the car seat with you. Plus I found it handy when doctors appointments etc if she was sleeping I would just take the car seat in rather than lift her out and wake her xx

We have the pebble plus and will be using it again.
I loved it and more often then not took her out of the car and kept her in the car seat despite swearing I’d never do this 🙈
When pouring of rain or snowing (winter baby) it was so much easier and kept them warmer.
Baring in mind you cannot put them in a seat with a coat, so would have to remove them from the warm and put a coat or blanket round them 🤷🏼‍♀️
I found it easer to leave them in the seat and wrapped up with a foot muff or blanket still in place.

If you genuinely won’t ever have a time where you would ever do that and you don’t use the car much at all and will always be walking then go for the other one.

I used a maxi cosi when i had DS (dear son) 8 years ago and it was great but this time qe have gone for the Cybex cloud q plus as it lays flat when you put it on the pushchair. It's pretty heavy the only down fall I have noticed so far x

Thanks everyone, we went to mothercare today to test them out and see what we liked and ended up buying the axissfix plus, it was a great offer £200 ex display (that was only put on display yesterday as they are clearing older colours)
We did check about which would go in our car and because we have under floor storage we couldn’t have the base for the pebble plus anyway as the leg needs to touch the actual floor of the car!

Not in your choice list but I would recommend cabriofix as that is lighter than the pebble weight wise. Also there’s another one maxi cosi city which I didn’t know about, it is much lighter than the two but looks slightly flimsy to me.

I would recommend the pebble plus over the axissfix as although the fitting list may say its suitable for ur car we often find that the angle is all wrong for a new born and it sits too upright so could lead babys head to fall forward.

Id also personally recommend the Joie I Gemm as it's also i size, alot lighter and cheaper too.

We bought a pebble plus but the wrong isofix base so we had to buy the pebble. As our pram has come with a car seat also means we have 3 but we are going to sell the pebble plus and donate the one to a charity shop.

I took the tags off the pebble plus’s so can’t take it back to the shop had gutted as we won’t get what we paid for it back but it’s my fault for being to excited.

Please do your research into what bass and seat you need as it can get expensive to buy again. We went for 2 bases and one car seat so worked out cheaper to buy the correct seat rather than the 2 bases.

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